Charlesinrichmond t1_iufujzh wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:21 AM

I did that for my house, it's a great idea.

Get a Dream Pro if you haven't. So much better than running ubiquiti on a computer. You probably need a switch too I assume, with POE injection. There's something I'm not as pleased with Ubiquiti on, I've got a switch 8 open in another window I'm fighting with. The Netgear 5 port gigabit unmanaged poe switch is very good in my short experience with it, and cheap.

I'm glad to see you are pulling cat6 too. Do a plan/site survey and figure out how many waps you'll need. 1920s plaster etc will usually give you say 15-20 foot radiues per wap depending.

And the ubiquiti stuff generally likes to live on the ceiling fwiw

SaltyAmbassador OP t1_iuiidlp wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:17 PM

I am currently using a USG and a cloud key to run ubiquity. Is there a benefit to getting a Dream Pro?

Charlesinrichmond t1_iuik69c wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:29 PM

compared to USG and cloudkey? Not sure. For me I've been running it off an edgerouter lite and a laptop for the last decade or so, so I wanted to upgrade the router as well.

I will say I find the new UI so much of an improvement. Though it makes it a minor pain to force channels, it seems to really want the system to do it, which I'm not sure works in an urban environment yet. I had always previously set my own with wifi scanner